The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' 2012-13 theatrical season will include a new production of Ferenc Molnár’s The Guardsman, featuring a new adaptation by Richard Nelson and direction by Gregory Mosher.

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Performances of the 1920s Broadway comedy smash are scheduled for May 25-June 23, 2013.

Tony Award–winning Druid Theatre Company will present the story of Irish emigration through a three-play cycle of works by Irish dramatist Tom Murphy: Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. Directed by Garry Hynes, performances of DruidMurphy are scheduled for Oct. 17-20. Audiences are invited to experience each of the three plays individually or all three together in a single day.

Songs of Migration, which was created by South African trumpeter, composer and lyricist Hugh Masekela, is described as a "musical tribute to the great songs of migrants across the African continent." The musical evenings will be presented Oct. 17-20.